Calculating a flight path to visit almost a billion homes in one night without any major causality violations is hard enough without administrations that treat atomic clock references as something that can get by with “good enough” service levels. Just be patient, we are running a fix-up pass. If you have been interpenetrated remain still and do not remove embedded gifts.

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At the Lute and Pillage Tavern, Anika the thief held a bottle above fried chicken. Nothing came out.

"Hey barkeep!" she yelled. "I'm out of sauce!"

Aleks glanced up. "Freydis!" he called out. "More wing sauce?"

Without glancing up, a teenage girl in a school uniform waved her hand. A winged rat flew over and, like a dragon breathing fire, spewed forth a stream of orange sauce.

Anika stared at her chicken. "I'm not sure if I should be impressed," she said, "or disgusted...."

#microfiction

At the Lute and Pillage Tavern, Anika the thief held a bottle above fried chicken. Nothing came out.

"Hey barkeep!" she yelled. "I'm out of sauce!"

Aleks glanced up. "Freydis!" he called out. "More wing sauce?"

Without glancing up, a teenage girl in a school uniform waved her hand. A winged rat flew over and, like a dragon breathing fire, spewed forth a stream of orange sauce.

Anika stared at her chicken. "I'm not sure if I should be impressed," she said, "or disgusted...."

#microfiction

"I have heard that the thoughts you think most often, and strongest, are etched on the inside of your skull," the necromancer's assistant said. "Is that true?"

"It is," the necromancer said. "Though I rarely try to read them."

"Will you read mine, when I'm dead?"

"Do you want me to?"

"Yes."

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Of course the big winners of the wormhole revolution were the megacorps, shipping huge quantities of data and goods between the stars. But there were little indie wins too. One enterprising history nerd realised that with a careful array of holes and a really high gain PAL reviever, she could watch TV from the 1970s--90s "live".

I hear it's become quite a christmas tradition in some of the hipster bubbles.

#microfiction #MicroSF

"Magic? Are you for real? That stuff is all make-believe," the youth huffed in exasperation.

The elder remained unperturbed. "What makes you so certain?"

"Ugh! I... I tried it all, ok? The incantations, the ritual components, the freaking wands! I wished over and over again and nothing happened, and right now I just need this to end, so I'm not wasting my time with all that trash again."

Still unperturbed - but now with a glimmer of understanding - the elder placidly responded. "Ahh, yes, you've been taught the usual lies. No matter - the truth is easy enough to learn... if you'd like."

The youth was obviously still skeptical, but offered no objection.

The elder spoke - quietly at first, growing more and more animated with every word, until the room itself seemed to struggle to hold the conversation.

"A wish, my dear, is not a commandment which we use to impel reality to become different for no reason! No, this is silly! Of course what you were told didn't work, because none of it is true! A wish is an invitation - it is the feeling of reality asking us if we'd like to be a part of changing it! That is the way the magic flows. And if we say yes, well... that's when things get interesting!"

#MicroFiction

"I have heard that the thoughts you think most often, and strongest, are etched on the inside of your skull," the necromancer's assistant said. "Is that true?"

"It is," the necromancer said. "Though I rarely try to read them."

"Will you read mine, when I'm dead?"

"Do you want me to?"

"Yes."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Of course the big winners of the wormhole revolution were the megacorps, shipping huge quantities of data and goods between the stars. But there were little indie wins too. One enterprising history nerd realised that with a careful array of holes and a really high gain PAL reviever, she could watch TV from the 1970s--90s "live".

I hear it's become quite a christmas tradition in some of the hipster bubbles.

#microfiction #MicroSF

The genus /Magicicada/ is gloriously named; in addition to these well known 17- and 13-year periodical Cicadas—whose prime numbered cycles feature minimal overlap—there are also distantly related but less mathematically astute species, such as the Indian four year /C.ribhoi/ and Fijian 8-year /R.knowlesi/. Even the wildest 2025 bingo card lacked 10⁷-dragons, however.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

The genus /Magicicada/ is gloriously named; in addition to these well known 17- and 13-year periodical Cicadas—whose prime numbered cycles feature minimal overlap—there are also distantly related but less mathematically astute species, such as the Indian four year /C.ribhoi/ and Fijian 8-year /R.knowlesi/. Even the wildest 2025 bingo card lacked 10⁷-dragons, however.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

"Magic? Are you for real? That stuff is all make-believe," the youth huffed in exasperation.

The elder remained unperturbed. "What makes you so certain?"

"Ugh! I... I tried it all, ok? The incantations, the ritual components, the freaking wands! I wished over and over again and nothing happened, and right now I just need this to end, so I'm not wasting my time with all that trash again."

Still unperturbed - but now with a glimmer of understanding - the elder placidly responded. "Ahh, yes, you've been taught the usual lies. No matter - the truth is easy enough to learn... if you'd like."

The youth was obviously still skeptical, but offered no objection.

The elder spoke - quietly at first, growing more and more animated with every word, until the room itself seemed to struggle to hold the conversation.

"A wish, my dear, is not a commandment which we use to impel reality to become different for no reason! No, this is silly! Of course what you were told didn't work, because none of it is true! A wish is an invitation - it is the feeling of reality asking us if we'd like to be a part of changing it! That is the way the magic flows. And if we say yes, well... that's when things get interesting!"

#MicroFiction

Calculating a flight path to visit almost a billion homes in one night without any major causality violations is hard enough without administrations that treat atomic clock references as something that can get by with “good enough” service levels. Just be patient, we are running a fix-up pass. If you have been interpenetrated remain still and do not remove embedded gifts.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot